When I was little, I did things that I now consider annoying. But at the time? I was just living my best life, unaware that I was a walking, living source of annoyance. What did I know about pet peeves?
For example, I loved slurping my drinks. Give me a box of juice, and I’d make sure to suck every last drop with the loudest, most dramatic slurp possible. The sound? Fantastic. But my mom? Oh, she hated it so much.
And then there was me always licking my fingers loudly when eating soup. To me, it was a necessary part of eating soup. Have the one in my plate, then enjoy the ones on my fingers. Sometimes, I purposely dip three to four fingers into the soup so I can lick them one after another.
Yeah, that was weird
She had a standard reaction to these behaviors A bombastic side-eye, a murderous glare, and occasionally, a swift correctional slap to bring my brain back. "I don’t know in what year you’ll have sense, even as you’re so tall, but nothing up there," she’d say, in the most frustrated tone.
Looking back, I can’t blame her. Because somewhere along the way, I finally grew up, and apparently, so did my sense. Suddenly, I found myself getting annoyed by certain human behaviors too. And just like that, I realized my mom was right all along.
As I grew older, I started noticing little things that gets me so worked up the way my slurping and finger-licking probably irritated my mom. And here are my top three out of the ever growing list.
People Who Always Have Itchy Throats
This is me sitting quietly somewhere, probably enjoying some fresh air and peace and suddenly ahem... AHEM... hmmm... ahem.
It start as a subtle sound that I would almost ignore and then the person do it again and again. Worst case is when the person starts gathering mucus.
Stoppppppp
In my head I'm like why don't you just order a new throat from Temu?
I don't understand, why is your throat constantly itching? Once in a while is fine but every 2secs? Nah to the ah, to the no no no
My immediate sister has this major allergies, which became more evident when she was pregnant. I visited then and every morning,how I'll know she's woken up is when I hear this aggressive clearly of throat from my room. I don't know how I survived but thank God for me, y'all.
People who don't follow patterns.
I know everyone has their own way of doing things but some things in general requires some sort of order, wouldn't you agree?
Why do you see that there's a long queue of people waiting orderly and you breeze in trying to squeeze yourself in the front.
Others that are joining the line orderly are they aliens?
People who are generally not observant to notice how things are done or even like to do whatever they like are a menace to the society. They should have their own planet. If you're my friend and you visit me I don't want you to start touching stuff and rearranging the entire place.
I have a friend who's always touchy when she visits. "Oh, you have a new dress?"
Attempts to see if it'll fit her
We almost had a fallout because of that. I told her so many times to stop touching things so much when she visits because in the end, I can't find some things and when I ask, it sounds like I'm accusing someone of stealing or something.
We always wash our plates after eating each meal, so please don't go and keep that one single plate you used in the sink when others washed theirs.
You're not an agent of choas, mai dear
Autocorrect, please take my life....
If there’s one thing that has tested my patience the most, it’s autocorrect. I can forgive humans, but I cannot forgive my phone actively working against me when I’m just trying to express myself.
If I’m excitedly texting someone, probably I'm having this hot gist with my friend and my fingers are moving at the speed of light on the keyboard, dear Autocorrect please, let me be.
I don't want to know if the word is no where to be found in the dictionary, just let me be please.
Sometimes, it doesn't even bother to just correct you. It does this thing where it repeatedly changes the same word multiple times, even after I fix it.
Wallows in agony of frustration
I don't like itttt.
Now I even have to go and seek for my mom's forgiveness for doing those things I used to do because I can't even stand it myself. My eyes shoot lasers to people who do some of these little annoying things. A lot of times, they do it unconsciously, which is why I think God my eyes don't have real lasers. I would have turned to a serial killer or something worse.
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